The newest Android Auto app is a secret weapon for the productivity-hungry

There's a new version of Android Auto out, and amongst the most unexpected additions is Adobe Acrobat, so you can now read PDFs in your car.

That might seem a little crazy, and if you're expecting to be reading through PDFs while driving, it is. But there's an interesting feature here that justifies its inclusion in Android Auto.

Listen to your PDFs on the go

Open Android Autoafter the latest update, and one new app in your app drawer may surprise you. Adobe Acrobat is the most popular way to read and edit PDFs, and for some reason, you can now access that app in your car — which means you can also open PDFs in there.

Seems puzzling? At first glance, it is. But there's a new feature in Acrobat that makes this all make sense: Read Aloud.

It's no mystery what this does, and you get no prizes for guessing. Read Aloud effectively turns your PDF documents into an audiobook, converting a long text document into an audio stream that's easily listened to in the car.

The benefits of this are many. PDFs are used for almost anything involving the written word, professional and casual alike. So by toggling on Read Aloud with your chosen PDF before you start, you can spend the time driving becoming familiar with work documents, class papers, heck, even the rules and setting for an upcoming Dungeons & Dragons session.

It's a potentially huge productivity boost for those who can use it, and I'd imagine that, after a few moments of thinking, you could probably figure out some ways it could benefit you.

It's worth pointing out that 9to5 Google couldn't get it to work with every document they tried, and as ever with these sorts of features, there are likely to be some weird bugs, like it trying to transcribe parts of decoration or something like that. But even with that in mind, this is a massive boost for Android Auto, and a huge boon for anyone who loves to maximize their productivity, even while on the move.